What's the worst or weirdest ice cream flavour (or serving combination) you've ever seen?
Posted by HilariousMotives@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 114 comments
Vegetable themed ice cream always seems a bit weird, but then kids will argue that chocolate is a vegetable. Vanilla too. 😏
Rude-Possibility4682@reddit
I'm waiting for the Marmite one.
StuartHunt@reddit
I was at school with a girl who put ketchup on vanilla ice-cream
Most_Kiwi3141@reddit
Green tea. It was not good.
angelmicah@reddit
I've had olive oil and salt ice cream, and gorgonzola (blue cheese) and honey ice cream... both were delicious
InEachHomeAHeartache@reddit
Ah, I tried Olive Oil ice cream once in a restaurant and was so pleasantly surprised I looked it up as a craze from a few years ago.
I bought some really posh olive oil and tried adding it to my own, it works well with a posh vanilla or pistachio ice cream!
Filthy_Oily_Fanny@reddit
I’m gonna try that. I’ve got some superb olive oil a mate in Spain produced.
BlendinMediaCorp@reddit
M&S just launched an olive oil ice cream and I’m dying to try it! The only other one I’ve had (from a posh cheffy ice cream place abroad) was amazing.
griffaliff@reddit
Tomato ice cream in Sardinia, it was grim.
DollySheep32@reddit
Mint choc chip is objectively evil
alarming_wrong@reddit
i think brie or camembert flavour ice cream at a place in Oxford town centre at the end of a big night out. i have little recollection but apparently we all had some. when you're battered and hungry you'll eat anything
Single-Aardvark9330@reddit
I had kiwi ice-cream once, it didn't really work
the_wally_champ@reddit
That’s a long way to go for ice cream, fair play
LeFuzzyOtter@reddit
Whenever I'm in Finland, it's any of the ice creams that Salmiakki (salty licorice) in it.
They are obsessed with the stuff.
I personally can't stand it, ha ha!
NewtSoupsReddit@reddit
Crab ice cream. It's a real thing
HilariousMotives@reddit (OP)
Was it from here?
E-Step@reddit
I had a blue cheese one last summer and it was delie
Busy-Ad7936@reddit
I experienced a few vegetable ice creams/ice lollies is in Thailand. Most were quite acceptable,but occasionally bought a Durian ( look it up) flavoured one, and they are unbelievably VILE. Still, it was an experience!
DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit
Human breast milk.. cheap vanilla flavour comes from beaver butt juice..
HilariousMotives@reddit (OP)
Dam
IllFinger3635@reddit
Parmesan ice cream.. suprisingly nice.
Pea & mint ice cream, great flavour and colour.
Beetroot & honey... stained fingers.
sammie-chu@reddit
Black olive sorbet. It was years ago at a dinner dance kind of event, someone needed a dessert that was free from various allergens instead of the set menu option and this is what was served. I didn't actually try it but all who did said it looked horrible and tasted worse!
I've had heritage tomato and pear and stilton ice creams before, both of those were lovely.
ohsaycanyourock@reddit
I had 'smoked ice cream' at my auntie's wedding. It was okay? Not gross but not delicious either.
Zealousideal_Run_575@reddit
Not me, but my sister in California sent me a picture of a place that served Garlic ice cream. Not just garlic flavoured, it also had garlic pieces in it. 🤮🤮
CompleteWhittle@reddit
Glastonbury 1995 - I remember the only stall with no queue was the garlic ice cream stall... I wonder if they took it all home again.
DoctorMuerto@reddit
That was probably in Gilroy, which bills itself as the "garlic capital of the world" and places there lean into the gimmick.
GrandAsOwt@reddit
If you fly over Gilroy in a small plane you can smell the garlic.
Zealousideal_Run_575@reddit
No. San Francisco. But probably some food festival. She would not travel so far to grab ice cream.
bobmbface@reddit
There is(was?) a restaurant in San Francisco called the Stinking Rose that specialised in garlic food, just looked it up and looks like they serve Gilroy’s garlic ice cream. Would try.
DoctorMuerto@reddit
Oh, yeah. The Stinking Rose would also fit the bill.
InsolentOrchids1021@reddit
Oh hell no
Familiar-Candidate-7@reddit
I live on the Isle of Wight (UK) and we have a big garlic festival which has garlic ice cream. I am not tempted
rustynoodle3891@reddit
California, France I presume
CrossCityLine@reddit
I mentioned this in my comment further down. It isn’t in/around Anaheim is it?
There is a restaurant there which does EVERYTHING in garlic and that’s where I had my garlic ice cream. Can’t say it was that bad but I wouldn’t have it again.
man-flu@reddit
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
Laxly@reddit
When I was younger my Mum worked on a nursing home kitchen, one day the local rep from one of their food distributors gave them a tub of brown bread ice cream.
My god it was amazing, I keep meaning to make my own brown bread ice cream as nearly 30 odd years later, I can still remember the taste
LikeEveryoneSheKnows@reddit
I've had brown bread ice cream, it was surprisingly good. Also had white chocolate and basil and a raspberry and sage one too (in Rome).
LighteningBolt66@reddit
Brown bread is my favourite.
Out of curiosity where did you get it?
LikeEveryoneSheKnows@reddit
Harry Gow bakery in Brora. It was a good few years ago mind, and I've not seen it in there since.
El_John_Nada@reddit
Quite a few: Gorgonzola, Mozzarella/Basil, Goat cheese, Durian... All absolutely delicious!
MinMorts@reddit
There was an ice cream stall in covent garden that did breast milk ice cream for a while.. think it got shut down for safety reasons or something
AttentionOtherwise80@reddit
My (then) 2 year old granddaughter took pickle from.. her grandpa's plate, dipped it into her chocolate ice cream and pronounced it "yummy".
She is now 8 and will do.almost anything for a pickle, a couple of pickled onions, or some olives, with or without ice cream.
Slutty_Foxx@reddit
Melon and chilli, was actually spicy
cubesnack@reddit
In King's Cross there is Ruby Violet place. They had horseradish ice cream. 🤢
LaurenNotABot@reddit
Strawberry and balsamic.
Was from Salt and straw in Orlando
you_aint_seen_me-@reddit
The local place offered Guinness. Once, not repeated ;)
FloydEGag@reddit
Black pepper, but when I tried it it was gorgeous (it was like a light vanilla flavoured with the pepper).
I really wanted to like the Irn Bru sorbet I got a cone of in a place in Eastern Scotland that will remain nameless, and it did taste great, but clearly the hygiene conditions in the place weren’t great because an hour later I was projectile vomiting :(
bent-ref@reddit
I've yet to find an Irn Bru sorbet I didn't like but I've also yet to find one that tastes of Irn Bru.
FloydEGag@reddit
The hunt continues, it hasn’t put me off
vipros42@reddit
I've had marmite gelato. Didn't taste enough of marmite for my tastes.
mhoulden@reddit
Now you've got me wondering if you could make Marmite sorbet by putting a jar in the freezer and occasionally stirring it to break up the ice crystals.
LurkingWithStyle@reddit
Stilton flavour. Surprisingly good.
BlendinMediaCorp@reddit
Blue cheese goes great with honey, pear, figs, apples … all sweet stuff. Makes sense it would work in ice cream! (But I do understand the conceptual horror of it)
ButteredNun@reddit
I definitely would
cheflifecdf@reddit
Same, an Italian near me does a blue cheese & walnut gelato. Delicious!
Western_Froyo6627@reddit
My dad apparently used to eat ice cream with salt + vinegar crisps and tomato ketchup 🤢
Zealousideal_Pop3121@reddit
I used to have vienetta with vinegar 😂 in my defense, I was 8
EldritchSanta@reddit
Salt licorice, Sweden.
Fun, but not again.
The weirdest that I actually liked was ginger parkin.
phantom_phreak29@reddit
Pralines and dick...
LegitimatePowder@reddit
Please continue. I love dick.
phantom_phreak29@reddit
It was all this guys idea
vipros42@reddit
I'm glad you went to the trouble of posting this so I didn't have to
LegitimatePowder@reddit
I should've known this! It's been waaaaaaay too long.
ButteredNun@reddit
Those that argue with kids don’t learn
Taro ice cream is very common in China
InEachHomeAHeartache@reddit
There's a Boba place in the market in town and I thought the Taro one from there was delicious. They also had a 'Hong Kong Tea' one which just tasted like sweet milky tea, very nice!
Ahleanna-D@reddit
I imagine I’d quite like that. Taro is my favourite flavour of bubble tea... Delicious purple goodness. 🤤
Party_Advantage_3733@reddit
I find the whole 'milk ice cream' thing very odd. Seems superfluous.
Ancient-Awareness115@reddit
Isn't milk ice cream, cream based rather than custard based? Or am I getting muddled?
Party_Advantage_3733@reddit
I was refering more to the 'Great British Menu' type cliche of what appears to be ice cream with no added flavouring being called "milk ice cream". It seems to be a gelato, or possibly French type of ice cream in composition.
gulfrend@reddit
Of that's not to your taste, I also sell egg omelettes
Professional-Fox1542@reddit
I only tried the rosemary and chocolate one, but the mustard one sounds nasty!
InEachHomeAHeartache@reddit
Oh I forgot about these! I was not brave enough to try the Mustard one but I had the other two. The Popcorn one was delicious!
Bbew_Mot@reddit
Brown bread. It actually tasted like brown bread!
TTTJJBB@reddit
Not sure if you call it a 'flavour', or if they are still selling it, but Noma sold ice cream topped with live ants.
InEachHomeAHeartache@reddit
In Oxford there is a marvelous small chain of ice cream places called G&Ds.
Their gimmick is that they have a petition for people to suggest new flavours or bring back previously suggested ones and they cycle this one flavour slot monthly.
You get some obvious things like various brands of chocolate bar / sweets or combinations thereof, then you get some oddities.
People of my vintage were desperate for Purple Calpol but that's obviously a no-go for potential liver damage.
The one they had in that I wasn't brave enough to try was 'Port and Stilton'...
One night a friend of mine decided to go for Chili Chocolate, didn't like it and gave it to me to finish. They were not messing around, it was full of very finely chopped bright red Thai / Bird's Eye chilis and one mouthful burned hotter than any curry I'd been brave enough to try!
KingKhram@reddit
There's a garlic themed restaurant in San Francisco called The Stinking Rose and it does a Garlic Ice Cream. My parents went there many years ago and tried it, they said it was delicious.
SamPizza89@reddit
Wasabi flavour in Kyoto, that was well-weird!
Aaron123111@reddit
I’ve seen liquorice
Chiarin@reddit
I've had lemon and liquorice ice cream in Finland. Sounds gross, was actually really nice.
rainbow84uk@reddit
I saw so many interesting ones when living in Mexico.
There's a big chain of ice-cream parlours called La Michoacana that often does unusual flavours – I remember seeing tomato and lettuce ice-creams there at different times. Didn't try those, but I did try a delicious Day of the Dead themed ice-cream made with pumpkin, cane sugar and marigold flowers.
Street vendors in Mexico also commonly sell flavours you don't get in the UK, like cheese or rice (both really good!)
JuniorToe3327@reddit
Spider-Man flavoured ice cream! Like how tf you know what spidey tastes like!
Hungry_Living766@reddit
The designer Anya Hinmarch has an ice cream shop that opens every summer. The flavours are all based on cult food brands, amongst which are Twiglets, Bisto, birdseye peas and Heinz Baked Beans.
TheMarvelMunchkin@reddit
Not sure if it’s weird - weird
I had salted pistachio ice cream in Italy… yes it was salty- but really nice
LegitimatePowder@reddit
I would love that. Sounds divine.
Money-King702@reddit
I had ricotta and fig which I thought sounded great but strange for an ice cream. Honestly it was divine
LegitimatePowder@reddit
Ooooh I'd love to try that!
Stunning_Account2010@reddit
Banana and bacon somewhere in Mexico and it was amazing.
LegitimatePowder@reddit
That sounds delicious!
goblinpeets@reddit
Queso ice cream. It was vile.
FloppyFishcake@reddit
I tried blue cheese ice cream in France once. Not an experience I wish to repeat.
J3menfiche@reddit
I’ve had blue cheese ice cream a few times now and I love it!!
danielle1551@reddit
my family in the philippines forced me to try keso ice cream once when i was 7, the taste is still in my mouth
msmoth@reddit
Sweetcorn ice cream as part of a fish main course. It was awful.
Doomergeneration@reddit
I had black sesame and it was one of the best ice creams I ever had
0rlan@reddit
Pea flavor ice cream?
Mission-Sound9493@reddit
Strawberry and basil. Theoretically should be a nice combo (as it is in a salad) but it really did not work.
Ahleanna-D@reddit
I had a soy sauce flavoured ice cream, as I love trying the weird and wonderful foods.
i was disappointed- it tasted remarkably similar to salted caramel.
Call_Me_Janice@reddit
Marmite 🤢 I wasn't brave enough, even though I like Marmite
Went for the chilli chocolate flavour instead. Yum.
kazxam@reddit
Vanilla ice cream with balsamic vinegar 🤢
LordBoomDiddly@reddit
Salt & Vinegar
https://youtu.be/CKT0DIc26pU?si=LdP9hvABf2V4c8xh
notmyusername95@reddit
Cheddar cheese ice cream. You can get it in Cheddar (unsurprisingly). My brain was confused, it had the consistency of ice cream but tasted like mature cheddar
DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit
The Ice Cream Project does wild flavours.
parttimepedant@reddit
Doesn’t Five Guys do a bacon milkshake? I think that Blumenthal does a bacon ice cream.
GrimQuim@reddit
Smoked ice cream. It was like fish ice-cream.
Worldly_Wafer_6635@reddit
sounded nice, but ended in disgust.
dawnchs@reddit
I was at a cheese festival a few years ago. And they had a variety of cheese flavoured ice creams.
Timely_Egg_6827@reddit
Weirdest was probably garlic which actually worked ok. Had cheese ice cream which in theory should work as all dairy products together but didn't for me.
Bikeboy1982@reddit
I've had oyster ice cream. Was quite nice after you got over the weirdness of it.
Otocolobus_manul8@reddit
Parmesan ice cream. A real recipe in the 1800s
AncientImprovement56@reddit
A smoked fish one in Norway
GrimQuim@reddit
Smoked ice-cream. It was like fish ice-cream.
CrossCityLine@reddit
Chocolate, well cocoa, is a fruit not a vegetable.
Vanilla is also a fruit, the only edible fruit from an orchid.
I’ve had parsnip ice cream before and it was fantastic. Sweet potato, ube, and various gourds make decent ice cream flavours too.
Master-Trick2850@reddit
tofu
it was horrible
MeteorSwarmGallifrey@reddit
I remember a fair few years ago now there was a push for vegetable ice cream and the campaigners opened a stall in the shopping center near us and sold flavours such as pea ice cream. Tried it, and I believe it's the only ice cream I've ever had I have not finished.
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